[gps-talkusers] Re: Verbosity.

Hi Mike et al,
yes I realize having verbosity options is quite a major job. what I forgot to mention was that I observed the next, approaching, and near, in an vehicle route. while walking this would not be a problem.
Maybe when we can have just street crossing announced in the vehicle this issue will go away.
One thing to think about, I know Carl once told me that you try to have anything that's spoken also go to the braille display. Actually, that may not always be wise. Extra words take up valuable real estate on a braille display.
Keep trucking.
doug

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Verbosity.


Doug,

We worked a lot in the last release to make the Braille messages better. We can certainly do more and plan to continue improvements in the next release. Besides abbreviating messages, I agree it would be nice to have verbosity levels. This is a much bigger undertaking as far as programming time. Certainly beginners need a lot more verbocity than advanced users.

The approaching message could be eliminated or made an option. It only occurs when you have a route open. Otherwise, you just get the intersection announcement as we have discussed before.

Mike


At 10:18 AM 8/29/2006, you wrote:
yes, agreed. This would also be useful for speech users because sometimes it takes to long for the BN to spit out the info you want.
----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Doug wakefield
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:57 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Verbosity.

Hello all,
I'd like to introduce a new topic for discussion. It seems to me that in a
future release it would be great to have some verbosity settings. this would
be very important for those of us who like to operate with braille only.
I paid very close attention to the messages I was reading on the way to work
this morning. Bebecause I had a route open, I was getting most of the cross
streets. However, for most waypoints I received three messages. First, I
read "next..." then "approaching..." and then "near.." It's no wonder the
unit has trouble keeping up. I'd love to see a way to reduce the number of
messages. For example, "next" would be fine, "approaching" takes up 8 cells
of the 18 cells PK display.
Maybe there already is a way to do this but I don't know how. My selections
seem to be between detailed, or turns only. How about a "brief as opposed to
details.
Anyone else have thoughts on this matter.
Looking forward to hearing from people.

Doug Wakefield

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Hogan" <<mailto:jerryhogan5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jerryhogan5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Chris Grabowski joins the Sendero team


Cris,
Congratulation and I hope that Mike is paying you enough. Jerry Hogan
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] Chris Grabowski joins the Sendero team


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